Personalized Nutrition – Too Good To Be True?

Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction

Danielle Belardo

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Join Dr. Danielle Belardo and her expert of the week, clinical and academic dietitian Dr. Nicola Guess, as they unpack whether "personalized nutrition" is worth all the hype. It’s the latest hot topic all over social media, and with a new trend comes new supplements, testing kits, online programs, and apps. So, could this diet be the miracle worker it claims to be, or is this just another excuse for pseudoscientists to make a few bucks? Tune in to learn the facts (and fiction) about personalized nutrition and whether it’s just too good to be true. Danielle and Nicola discuss: What personalized nutrition actually is and why online programs can be problematic Nutrition buzzwords such as microbiome and inflammation Why the nutrition industry can get away with monetizing bogus products The positive role big tech companies could play in the health industry Dr. Nicola Guess is an experienced clinical and academic dietitian, registered in the UK and the US. Her clinical and research interests are in obesity, type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and cardiometabolic disease. She has worked in the NHS and currently runs a private consultancy. Her expertise in type 2 diabetes is globally recognized and she is a Diabetes UK Allied Health Professional Fellow, a National Institute of Clinical Excellence Scholar, a Winston Churchill Travel Fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar. Thank you so much for taking the time to contribute to a generation that values fact over fiction! Be sure to rate, review, and follow on your favorite podcast app and let us know which not-so-wellness trend you’d like to hear debunked. Follow your host on Instagram @daniellebelardomd and the podcast @wellnessfactvsfiction. Follow Nicola @dr__guess. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.1	They're basically just giving advice that anyone with a diet sheet and a CGM could figure
1:13.2	out for themselves.
1:14.2	But that doesn't sound sexy, does it?
1:16.4	It sounds sexy when you say, oh, we're measuring the bike from microbiome, it's personalized,
1:21.4	we can predict what your glucose is going to be.
1:23.3	It's like, yeah, of course you can, because you're predicting that a high protein low carb
1:27.6	diet lowers glucose, and there's data showing that it does.
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